China Government Business Newspaper Touts Diesel Passenger Cars

摘要

China's fast-growing passenger car sector – now the biggest single, new-car market in the world – is overwhelmingly gasoline-powered, but the heavy-duty sector is mainly diesel. Historically, China's government has disfavored passenger-car dieselization, as policy-makers figured that diesel fuel ought to be reserved for heavy goods transport and nonroad machinery of all types (and more recently, generator-set electric power).